The eyes have it: Seeking expressions of the genetic risk for developing alcoholism
... A family history of alcoholism does not, however, guarantee that individual offspring will develop the disease. In an effort to discover identifying "markers" of those at risk for alcoholism, researchers in the October issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research evaluate the influence of a family...Tourists, soothsayers & scientists try to predict peak Fall foliage color
...ight. Vibrant fall color is going to happen, I can guarantee it."...Ira Rubinoff honored by the Association for Tropical Biology
...berania National Park, he negotiated agreements to guarantee the continuity of Barro Colorado Island as a research station and to create the larger Barro Colorado Nature Monument. For these efforts, Rubinoff was inducted into the Order of Vasco Nuez de Balboa, the highest award granted by the Republic of Pana...ASU researcher puts recalled Firestone tires to good use
...ested in using a new material because there was no guarantee of success. In February 1999, Zhu personally added 200 pounds of crumb rubber to the concrete mixture being prepared for a test site on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe. He says the ratio of crumb rubber added to the mixture equated t...Researchers identify gene in rare form of epilepsy
...nheriting a mutated copy of the LGI1 gene does not guarantee getting epilepsy, the researchers found. The disorder will develop in 70 percent of individuals who have mutations in the gene. LGI1 had been characterized by other scientists doing cancer research. They found that loss of both copies of the LGI1 gen......But just because it works with sea urchins doesn't guarantee that it will work with the eggs of other species, he warns. And Randall Prather of the University of Missouri, whose team recently announced the cloning of miniature pigs, says the chip won't help solve other problems, such as ensuring that the egg...... School of Veterinary Medicine. "Hip laxity is no guarantee of arthritis later in life, but it is a very solid risk factor." The finding, reported in the Dec. 15 issue of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, could lead to new ways of averting or minimizing the occurrence of canine arthr...Blood vessels trigger development of the pancreas
...blood vessels to trigger their differentiation, to guarantee this intimate contact before they develop." Given the new findings that blood vessels signal pancreatic cells, Melton expects a similar signaling system to be found in other organs. While the discovery of this signaling mechanism will most likely aid...Arizona State University research finds recycling cure for used tires
...ted in using the new material because there was no guarantee of success. As luck would have it, Zhu found a test site in his own backyard. In February 1999, Zhu personally added 200 pounds of crumb rubber to the concrete mixture being prepared for the ASU site. He says the ratio of crumb rubber added to the mi...Global consortium announces plans to sequence banana genome
...a position of strength," Frison said. "We want to guarantee that any results, such as disease-resistant banana strains, will be made available to small-holder farmers on a royalty-free basis, even if they have commercial applications."...Rensselaer effort to pull mussels at Lake George looks promising
...rs have pulled only 352 mussels. Of course, I cant guarantee that all of the zebra mussels are gone from Lake George. That would be premature. But I am optimistic, based on the numbers, that we got most of them at this site, said Sandra Nierzwicki-Bauer, professor of biology at Rensselaer and director of its D...Hunger linked to poor health in low-income U.S. children
... don't get enough to eat and that employment is no guarantee of being well-fed. They reported that more than one-half of the 10 million Americans who sometimes or often don't get enough food to eat are from families where at least one person has a job. The research was supported, in part, by a training gra...In gene therapy first, scientists restore vision to dogs born blind
...tions in humans might benefit, although there's no guarantee that it will translate exactly to people," Hauswirth said. "No one really knows what dog years versus human years means in the eye."...Study: living near where pesticides used may boost fetal death due to birth defects
...n. "Our exposure classification method did not guarantee that a mother was in fact exposed because wind and weather conditions, hour of application and the location of the mother at the times of application were all factors that would determine actual exposure," she said. Women considering becoming pre......ally enhanced crops, it is currently impossible to guarantee that traditional seed will not contain a minute level of adventitious biotech material. "Moreover, seed is destroyed in the testing process for genetic purity, therefore, only a small percentage of a seed lot can be tested. Hence, zero tolerance of ...2000 FALL MEETING: updated press conferences, press registration, and other information
...scone. (The quotation marks signify that we cannot guarantee how quiet the room will actually be, but it is reserved exclusively for this purpose.) It is available to press registrants on a first come basis for up to an hour at a time with these priorities: 1. On-camera TV and video 2. On microphone radio 3....Unified theory relates microbial metabolism to lab and field
...a given set of experimental results. "There is no guarantee that a rate law chosen to describe behavior observed in a laboratory culture will apply in a given geochemical environment," Bethke said. "Also, the available rate laws do not account for the amount of energy that might be derived by a given metabol...Saving the whales -- how scientists measure success
...at "moratoria on harvest alone are insufficient to guarantee adequate conservation. Without adequate monitoring, it is not clear to what extent management objectives have been or will be achieved. Adequate monitoring programs, such as that for the eastern North Pacific gray whale, will not be inexpensive and w...GM seed may be more widespread than we think
... should carry the can. "The seed suppliers need to guarantee what that seed is, and bear social and economic responsibility for that," says Gary Goldberg of the American Corn Growers Association. But segregating crops won't be easy. Farmers in the US send their seed to elevators, companies that pool seed fro......y increases the iron content in the food. It is no guarantee that more iron is available to be absorbed by the body. Cold storage after cooking diminished the bioavailability of iron in cabbage by nearly half, with the cooking benefit dropping from a 20 percent increase to just over 10 percent three days...